the weigh it should be…
Just yesterday I was excited about my healthy food choices, my workout regime, and a developing contentment with my body. Oppomistic in myself and the woman God made me, I walked with a gait of healthy and content woman into my doctors appointment, but left like the...
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she started it…
She started it. She heard salsa music and started dancing like she does every year at Christmas. By herself or with the broom she’ll step to the right, then to the left, then to the right again in syncopated step with the Latin beats. My mom and her dancing only...
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shepherds of today…
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night… A phrase we thoughtlessly read over is laden with meanings layered deep into culture. The marginalized, disenfranchised members of society were ignored by...
read more2010 foibles and follies…
If I had to ability to know what the past 365 days entailed, I wouldn’t have believed it. Days seemingly have remained the same but the entire world has changed. The place I sleep. The office where I work. The zip code in which I live. The very person I am. The...
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what would jesus’ girlfriend wear…
Mothers have an odd way of pressuring their children to do things they don’t want to do. You know, clean their room, floss their teeth, talk about modesty. You know, the usual stuff. My mother is the Queen of Guilt Trips. If she wasn’t so darn cute about...
read moreon the seventh day…
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; on the seventh day he rested from all his work. –Genesis 2:2 On the seventh day God rested. On the seventh day I do anything but rest. Why are you up before the sun is up? Are you getting up yet?...
read more100 words: be who you is…
The plight of man is the longing to be so much more than we are. Malcontent and disillusioned looking at the lives of others, we are left aching for more and grasping for mirages of a life which might have been. But we are more than the expectation of others, the...
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brian wurzell…
Getting lost in melodies, finding harmonies, and singing into hair brushes is something I find myself doing virtually everyday. But there are moments when I just need something deep—something to move my soul. In moments where Ke$ha, Black Eyed Peas, or Florence...
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the perils of christmas…
Christmas is coming and the perils of shopping have overtaken America. ABC, BBC, CNN report that America is in the greatest recession since the Depression, but the malls of America are still buzzing with crying children, mad moms in minivans, and people like me who...
read moreseeing heaven…
I wasn’t expecting to see heaven until I died. But on December 13th, 2005 God had different plans. Trekking up the interstate 5 from Los Angeles to Orange County wasn’t easy, but there was a place for 20somethings to worship and hear about God’s...
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I’m a writer and teacher in love with two men: Jesus and my husband, Matt. [You might not find this funny, but I laugh at myself, so it all balances out.]
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